‘Read RTI Act properly’

Municipal Corporation officials should read the RTI Act properly before providing information under RTI. This was stated by the state information commissioner Parveen Kumar who had come to interact with the MC officials.

He said that at times,applicants seek third party information,which cannot be provided. The public information officer must read the act properly and act on the complaints accordingly.

It needs to be mentioned that as of now more than 500 applications under RTI are coming to seek information of one or the other kind while about 480 complaints had also reached the first appellate authority this year.

Public information officers also raised queries which were answered by Kumar on the spot.